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Telegramme (cable) from Henrik Beer to U -Thant

Expanded Number S-0861 -0003-13-00001

Title items-in-Peace-keeping operations - Middle East - refugees

Date Created 12/06/1967

Record Type Archival Item

Container s-0861-0003: Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: Middle East

From; League of Red Cross Societies

Date: 12 June 1967

CABLE

TO: U THANT FROM SPINELLI. FOLLOWING RECEIVED FROM LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCIETIES , GENEVA

"LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCIETIES "WELCOMES CEASE-FIRE ESTABLISHED IN MIDDLE EAST, WHICH WAS REGARDED BY ITS PRESIDENT ITS VICE-PRESIDENTS IN THEIR APPEAL OF 5 MAYT
AS ESSENTIAL PREREQUIS1TE FOR ANY EFFORT AIMED AT FINDING SOLUTION THAT WOULD RESTORE PEACE IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD AS THAT CONDITION HAS FORTUNATELY BEEN FULFILLED

TODAY, I WISH TO ASSURE YOU ON BEHALF OF ALL THE NATIONAL SOCIETIES MEMBERS OF OUR FEDERATION, THAT THE LEAGUE IS PREPARED, IN ACCORDANCE WITII ITS TRADITIONAL PROCEDURES AND IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS COMMITTEE,

"TO ENSURE ITS  RESPONSIBIIJTIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO ALL CIVILIAN VICTIMS OF THE CONFLICT. HOWEVER IT CONSIDERS THAT PRIORITY SHOULD
BE GIVEN HAVING COUNTRIES DRAW UP A GENERAL INVENTORY OF NEEDS FOR EACH CATEGORY OF FOLLOWING: FIRST, CIVILIAN POPULATIONS} SECONDLY, OLD REFUGEES,  THIRDLY, NEW REFUGEES. TO THIS END, IT SEEM DESIRABLE THAT A LOCAL BUREAU .SHOULD BE SET UP TO CENTRALIZE INFORMATION, PREPARE AN OVER-ALL PROGRAMME, AND  CO-ORDINATE  VARIOUS ACTIVITIES. IN VIEW OF LARGE NUMBER OF PARTIES CONCERNED WITH ASSISTANCE, I TAKE THE LIBERTY 0? SUGGESTIMG TI1AT UNITED NATIONS SHOULD TAKE INITIATIVE IN THIS FIELD OF  COLLABORATION WITH INTERNATIONAL . INSTITUTIONS, RED CROSS AND NON GOVERMENTAL AGENCIES CONCERNED.

BEER"
SECRETARY--GENERAL, LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCTETIES "

Jean Pictet - Henrik beer's tribute !

International Review of the Red Cross (1979), 19:115-129 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1979
doi:10.1017/S0020860400019860


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Research Article

A Tribute to Jean Pictet

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Alexandre Hay, a1, Henrik Beer, a2, Jean-Georges Lossier, a3, Professor I. P. Blishchenkoa4, G. I. A. D. Draper, a5, Professor Hamed Sultana6 and Dietrich Schindler, a7


a1 President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
a2 Secretary-General League of Red Cross Societies
a3 Former Editor-in-chief of the International Review of the Red Cross
a4 Doctor of Legal Science, Vice-President of the Soviet Lawyers' Association, Secretary to the Association of Democratic Lawyers
a5 Professor in the University of Sussex
a6 Member of the Institut d'Egypte, Honorary President of the Egyptian Society of International Law.
a7 Professor at the Faculty of Law University of Zurich
Article author query
hay a
beer h
lossier j
blishchenko ip
draper gi
sultan h
schindler d


On 30 June 1979, Mr. Jean Pictet will reach retirement age after forty-two years of service with the ICRC.

He joined the ICRC in 1937 and has had a very full career. He is a thinker, a jurist, a writer, a teacher and at the same time a man of action, who took part in all major Red Cross undertakings; he is the inspirer and the mentor of the Red Cross.


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